Violence & Fatalities
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Violence & Fatalities
Lasting over 12 years, the Syrian Civil War is one of the greatest humanitarian crises. This dashboard seeks to educate on the impacts of the Syrian Civil War.
The Map of Syrian Civil War shows armed conflicts of the Syrian Civil War. The color and size of the events are dependent on the causalities of the event. The map shows the regions in Syria that experienced the most violence, with a majority of violence occurring on the Northwest border, borders of opposing party territorial control, and large cities. In addition to the locations of violent events, monthly fatalities demonstrate the distribution of fatalities over time.
The Monthly Fatalities plot shows the fatalities of the Syrian Civil War from 2011-2019. The plot shows the peak of fatalities from 2012-2013. The peak in fatalities occurred in August 2012, with 4,911 deaths. Despite this decline in violence following, violence and fatalities in Syria persist. The fatalities plotted come to a total of 119,537 deaths from 2011-2019, with an updated death toll coming in even higher. A variety of violent events contributed to the fatalities in Syria.
The Frequency of Event Types reveals the frequency of armed conflict event types in the Syrian Civil War. The most common event type is explosions and remote violence, followed by battles and violence against civilians. Violent events such as these did not only result in fatalities, but a crisis of refugees and displaced people, seen on the next page.
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Map of Violence
Fatalities in August 2012
Total Civilian Casualties (2011-2019)
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Monthly Fatalities
Frequency of Event Types
Syrian Refugee Crisis
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Refugee Crisis
With more than half of their pre-war population of 22 million fleeing their homes, the Syrian Civil War created one of the largest refugee crises in history.
A total of 6,761,550 Syrian Refugees were forced to flee their country and seek refuge in another country. Not included in this number is the additional internally displaced people. The map shows where Syrian refugees went. The map signifies the displacement of Syrian refugees around the world, as well as the disproportionality of the number of Syrian refugees various countries. The countries in purple represent taking in over 100,000 Syrian refugees, which are plotted under Top Syrian Refugee Hosting Countries.
Of these countries, Turkey hosts over 3.5 million Syrian refugees, representing the country hosting the greatest number of Syrian Refugees. The second highest hosting country is Lebanon, with 851,718 Syrian refugees. The large difference between the top two hosting countries symbolizes the disproportionate displacement of Syrian refugees, which can be partly attributed to the unprecedented number of refugees caused by this war.
The Top Refugee Countries of Origin highlights the scale of the Syrian refugee crisis in relation to other refugee crises. This graph plots the top five countries that have produced the most refugees. Syria greatly exceeds the other countries of origin by millions of refugees, demonstrating the severity of crisis in Syria.
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Where Do Syrian Refugees Go?
Total Syrian Refugees
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Top Syrian Refugee Hosting Countries
Countries of Origin
